Thread for developers to discuss problems with 1.6 update and effects
on ADC2. If you see other forums or articles on the issue or if you
are one of the unlucky developers affected by the the untimely 1.6
update, please post is here!
Releasing 1.6 in the middle of a contest is unacceptable. According to
the official terms and conditions:
"a. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES: To qualify for a Prize, an "Entry" to the
Challenge consists of an original application that is written using a
version of the Android Software Development Kit ("SDK") (available at
http://developer.android.com) that validly executes on Android version
1.5. The SDK contains instructions, documentation, and all necessary
tools to enable a Participant to build an Android application."
My App as well as many other ADC2 apps worked fine on 1.5 but started
"force closing" after the 1.6 update. Programmers were told to develop
an application for 1.5, not 1.6, and were not given the tools or
opportunity to test our apps with 1.6. In my case, I have had 95
people test my app for Round 1 judging, but 27 of those were "force
closes" due to the 1.6 update. This is because of an issue with a
Google API that was updated with 1.6. Here are links to other people
discussing the 1.6 issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7373e1f622320971/035b0786ea8528f3?hl=en#035b0786ea8528f3
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a393540199f71516?hl=en#
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/5ff4dbce3701b73b?hl=en#
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/769e382ba77c7b29/f56d1f9adc95f01d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=adc#f56d1f9adc95f01d
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=5d754065b064e134&hl=en
http://androidandme.com/2009/10/news/did-google-fumble-the-android-1-6-launch/
http://polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com/
One suggestion would be to remove the last 25% of reviews of every app
in the contest (the ones most likely to have been affected by 1.6
upgrades) to reduce the negative effects of the 1.6 release.
How many others were affected? Any solutions to fix the problem?
Shelby
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